Hey Fellow Scrappers, I have almost a 5 gallon bucket full plug ends from various appliances I have dismantled. The ends are non ferrous. I am wondering if anyone ever sell anything like that. Any and all feedback is appreciated.
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Hey Fellow Scrappers, I have almost a 5 gallon bucket full plug ends from various appliances I have dismantled. The ends are non ferrous. I am wondering if anyone ever sell anything like that. Any and all feedback is appreciated.
most of the ends of plugs are brass and they can be removed its just a pain in the rear to do but they do add up after a while .. i think some are made of nickel im not sure . all you need is a good pair of pliers and lots of patience .. there is a couple of videos on youtube to show you how to remove them . i hope this helps .
I had a 55 gallon barrel of them that I finally dumped into my shred bin. Never found a buyer for them and it wasn'r cost effective to tear them apart.
I just saw a thread with this question asked, and I believe one of the suggestions given was to...
"Bring a pot of water to a medium boil, turn off the heat, add plugs to just below water line, use pliers to pull out after a bit of soaking, and another set to yank the plugs out"
I believe the feller used the term..'Comes out easier than cutting butter" or something along those lines. Forgive me poster who I cant recall posting this.
Might be worth a shot.
Sirscrapalot - Clips his ends, but just tosses them in a big ol'tv box till it's full.
I did the boil thing with some free propane and an outdoor burner. It worked well, even for the dryer/stove plug ends. I doubt it would make sense if I was paying for the propane. Mike.
Haha...I found the link. Lets see if I can summon my inner Mech88 and make this work.
It was from Trashmaster I've included a copy below, since it also links to the thread. Hope this helps.
"The easyist way to process the PLUG ends is to collect a 5 gl bucket of them and Heat a 1 or2 gl metal pot with hot water to a mild boil .
Turn off heat and add plugs , just under the water line.
reach in with pliers or something else and get one and using another pair of pliers (just pull the brass out ) easy as cutting BUTTER.
Trim off extra clean COPPER and SAVE>"
Full article at Scrap Metal Forum: http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/disma...#ixzz2JPmgwDwC
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depending on your location/bylaws you could always use wood for a heat source :)Quote:
Originally Posted by miked
I just use "Mother Nature" and have a black 5 gal bucket out in the sun to heat them up, does as good as boiling them.
For the big dollar scrappers it may not be worth it to tear down but for us SIS scrappers, you get a little copper along with 3 brass plug bits.
Our yard up here will buy them as a mixed brass with the plastic/rubber still on. Somewhere around .30 lb. mixed. Sure better than shred.
Someone posted a link to a you tube vidio of a guy that used the plastic piece from a projection tv as a large magnifieing glass. You could use one of these to heat the blugs and pull the brass out. I've always just left the ends on my insulated copper wire becuase if you cut it off your losing wieght. I don't think it's worth my time to remove the brass but that's just me.
Hmmm, heating them makes sense. But on the plugs, I just roll them out with a pair of channel locks. It's really not that much effort. Usually pulls a short piece of copper wire out with it. Sometimes they break off down in the plastic.
I haven't found a good way to deal with receptacle ends though. So if anybody has a good way to do it, please let me know.
Back in the old days I worked in a rubber factory and we would take the pieces and put them in a tumbler with dry ice and let them tumble the trimmings off. You freeze them and the rubber/plastic will shatter.Quote:
Originally Posted by telecomguy
Don't know of a cost effective way tho,,,
We always put our insulated wire out on the hood of a car for a couple hours in the summertime before stripping it. I think the same would work on those cord ends.
Thank you, this info really helps.
throw them in with the rest of your cords?
I just might, lets see
I also use the channel locks. It works good and doesn't take much time.Quote:
Originally Posted by telecomguy
I did 20 last night then throw them in a coffee can.
I've actually been working on the 5 gal bucket I filled up.. Using channel locks to hold the plug and side cutters to pull the prong out. It's about as time consuming as snipping bulbs off christmas lights though.
Just a bit of maths.....
In the UK we have 3 pin plugs there is the old (rewireable) and new (moulded on) types
Old yield 20grams (0.7 oz) new 17 grams (0.6oz)
Old 50 per Kg (23 per Lb) new 59 per Kg (27 per Lb)
Brass is 2.20 GBP per Kg (1.00 per Lb)
Thats $ 3.48 per Kg ($1.58 per Lb)
So thats 3.75 Pence (5.9 Cents) for the new style
and 4.4 Pence (7 Cents) for the old style
Plus the cable inside the plug.
So for a job you can do while watching TV it's money for nothing me thinks:rolleyes:
.60 a pound as dirty brass here today...
Mine just get tossed into a scrap car.
I was also mixing them in with the steel but .08 vs .60 changed my habit! LOL
i throw them in with ac adaptors when i get the. pays around a .25 per pound. We are not required to remove ends at our yard but i occasionally get some from the guys who have to cut their ends or strip them.
Anyone in Michigan take them??? I have two 5gal full of them
wes at resourceful recycling buys them. He is on the buyers page.
Tried to turn in plug ends like (rca, charger ends and such) as dirty brass but they would not take them this time. I cut off the brass on the regular plug ends and can turn in the rest of the plug with the ins wire. Went to another place and he will check for me. They are yellow brass with plastic coating 20 pounds worth LOL, and I need to remove them to get #2 ins wire price. If not into a washer or dryer for steel price they will go...
I took a coffee can full of ends and got a pound of brass out of them. Took me a little while but they went in as yellow brass at my yard @ 1.90/LB. Now I try to take the brass off as I get the ends right away.
I think ill make a youtube video and post it here, the prong ends are so easy for me, yes plyers are good , 2 channel locks are better or one channel lock an one plyer or one channel lock and one small vise, or 2 strong arms hehehhehe....Quote:
Originally Posted by SCscrapper72
2 channel lock plyers or mix like vice grip regular plyers.. channel locks work great on the prongs cause of the rounded top of the plyers hold one end, grab and roll other end its so quick its silly.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobo finds
TRG has it right on with the channel locks. It's how I go about it. Easy, an quick, once you get it down.
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Channel locks and a vise make real quick work of the plug ends. I line up similar plugs and clamp down in the vise and go to town. Reset and do it again till im done.
i deal with a lot of extension cords that's my main business plan. so i have a lot of ends . pulled out all the brass out of the male ends . now all i have is female plug ends may try a boil method one day on them